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San Francisco and Oakland have long had a friendly-ish rivalry. Good to see them now duking it out over which will bring in the first and best right-to-farm law. S.F. is going for the early lead with this: As of April, growing and selling produce on less than an acre is allowed citywide, with [...]  This NYT story may be a quirky diversion about a few people foraging for edible plants in parks…or a harbinger of what could become general as we head into an uncertain food future. It reminds me of the Tragedy of the Commons, the often-quoted essay by Garret Hardin about what happens when some people exploit the [...] Natural Home & Garden is running an excerpt from “Urban Agriculture: Ideas and Designs for the New Food Revolution.” At least that’s what I think they’re doing. It’s something the publisher worked out. Click for a free look at the book, stay for a chance to “Win This Fully Loaded Chicken Coop!”
Making a Case [...] There’s a debate in British Columbia involving the Agricultural Land Reserve. Farm-friendly people say the ALR is being tromped on by speculators who will buy a farmland-designated property, then erect the permitted dwelling as a McMansion with more appeal to the rich non-farmer than a real grower producing real food. The ALR is North America’s best [...] Who knew? Not the Canadian Cancer Society. Nor the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. They think dosing our yards (and thus our children and everyone else) with poison is a bad idea. So who likes it? Crop Life, the pesticide lobby group funded by corporations which make millions convincing people to lace their own environments [...] Been so long since we’ve read of a mall massacre, school lockdown or domestic dispute ending in multiple murder that it’s almost inevitable someone in the U.S. (read the National Rifle Association) would try to get more guns into the hands of more people. Even if they are having mental health issues. Some With Histories of [...] Interesting survey method asking for a story so you can tell the Park Board what to do for the next five years. It takes only 5 minutes so you should fill one out and be counted. I said there should be more public food and eco-designed parks. Here’s the survey:
The future of the world’s food will have a lot to do with cities, according to the Worldwatch Institute. I haven’t read its new two-years-in-the-making report yet, but am encouraged to see urban agriculture cited for important advantages including proximity to most of the world’s people, and its potential to empower women, build [...] What to do when your great guerrilla garden project runs into the stone wall of officialdom? Move it down the street! The planters outside the library showed how food can be grown even in very small areas, she added. She hoped public attention would prevent the removal of the edible garden. Guerilla garden transplanted [...] We know now the so-called “Green Revolution” that turfed millions of small farmers off their land for chemical-intensive industrial-sized farms was anything but “green.” And it didn’t work: 1 billion people are dying early from malnutrition and 1 billion are dying early from diet-related diseases while we continue to ravage the environment. So how [...] |
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